The History of Computing

Colossus

Colossus was one of the first electronic digital computers created. About 9 of them were created in Britain during World War 2, and was used to decode German coded messages. By breaking these codes, the Allies were able to find out Hitler’s and his general’s next moves. The codes were imputed from holes in a paper tape that the computer could read at a speed of 5000 characters per second and the punched tape ran in a continuous loop. This took about 15 years to create through the work of volunteers who sacrificed their time and were not paid anything.

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